Ciao EmailList Manager (alpha version 0.98.01) - (CREDITS)

Ciao EmailList Manager was written/designed/programmed by Ben Drushell 10/2000.
It is derived from:
  • original work by Ben Drushell
  • portions of Ciao Form2Email (C) Ben Drushell in the PHP language
  • portions of Bulk E-mailer(C) aka. Small Business E-mail List Manager(C) aka. EmailList Manager(C) written and owned by Ben Drushell in the Miva scripting language
Special thanks for all the suggestions, requests, bug notices, translations contributed by users of the Miva versions.
Special thanks to Jaques Desforges and Luskey Greene for Miva code contributions.

Miva is a registered trademark of Miva Corp. and a proprietary cgi-scripting/database language.
PHP (C) by The PHP Development Team is a FREE opensource cgi-scripting language.
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GNU General Public License was provided by the Free Software Foundation.
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Ciao EmailList Manager Code Contributors:
(date - name - description of contribution - optional means of contact)


  • 2000.12.19 - Wayne Davis - PHP4 compatability changes: removed empty array [] in "ciao_m04.php" and modified "ciao_t.php" because of mysql_insert_id bug in PHP4

  • 2000.12.22 - BD - Pause/Continue bug fix; increased import limit to 30kb files; fixed sending status bar

  • 2000.12.23 - Bob Hurt - Perl code for VERIFY_VIA_SENDMAIL and VERIFY_VIA_DIG contributed by Bob Hurt. Ported to PHP by BD - http://www.bobhurt.com/

  • 2000.12.23 - BD - added additional email verification rountine; added customizable message & subject inserts based on stored subscriber data

  • 2001.01.05 - BD - fixed the VerifyFields bug affecting subscriber updating in alpha 0.17

  • 2001.01.19 - Maxim Maletsky - isolated code error; error limited database password to 8 characters

  • 2001.01.20 - BD - made quantity of additional subscriber fields customizable; made signup and import verification messages customizable; fixed javascript error in user admin

  • 2001.01.21 - BD - fixed the popen error in the SENDMAIL and DIG validation routines

  • 2001.01.29 - BD - added html email sending abilities; modified the ciao template parser; modified the ciao template creation tool

  • 2001.01.30 - Tom Sokolis - isolated the "magic_quotes" incompatibility and contributed code for compensating

  • 2001.01.31 - BD - added code to hinder passing of viruses by html email; added "magic_quotes" detection code

  • 2001.03.14 - Juliano Zabeo Pessini - Bug fix on line 153 of ciao_s03.php

  • 2001.05.01 - BD - Lots of improvements before release of version 0.65

  • 2001.05.07 - BD - replaced quoted-printable with 8bit emails sent (fixes incompatibility with Outlook)

  • 2001.05.08 - BD - fixed link to sending html frame; charset data passing; multi-type send errors

  • 2001.05.10 - BD - fixed a bug that would cause signup form not to display when any block data was in database This bug only affected 0.65 & 0.67

  • 2001.05.11 - Gerbrand van Dieijen - added MIME-Version 1.0 to html email header for improved compatibility with several email client software

  • 2001.05.18 - BD - fixed the admin link/ data update problem

  • 2001.05.19 - BD - delete (unsubscribe) now requires password, if passwords are being used

  • 2001.05.19 - BD - added "category" variable input, so people can tie a template to a category

  • 2001.05.20 - BD - Admin notification now contains categories subscribed info

  • 2001.05.22 - BD - Added "return-path" field to email headers sent

  • 2001.05.22 - BD - Added php-include header/footer file feature. In ".ciao" files add the code header="head.html" footer="foot.html".

  • 2001.05.22 - BD - DB Update program fixed for categories.

  • 2001.05.22 - BD - Fixed stats listing for custom categories.

  • 2001.05.24 - Ryan Foster - added MIME-Version 1.0 to multi-part email header for improved compatibility with several email client software - http://www.inonmedia.com

  • 2001.05.31 - BD - Removed experimental anti-email-virus code due to over-reactive nature

  • 2001.05.31 - BD - Updated general configuration program to include header/footer file and required/optional text

  • 2001.05.31 - BD - Updated initial setup program to include option of editing/creating template without creating tables. This feature is for those who want to link to an existing Ciao EmailList Manager Database.

  • 2001.05.31 - BD - Added some enhancement to custom-categories.

  • 2001.06.05 - BD - Added search feature to email list display.

  • 2001.06.13 - BD - Added "unsubscribe from category" feature.

  • 2001.06.13 - BD - Fixed email address duplication bug. Email addresses are now forced to lower-case letters when saving.

  • 2001.06.13 - BD - Added duplication checks to the import feature.

  • 2001.06.13 - BD - Fixed "crypt" bug. (win version does not use crypt)

  • 2001.06.15 - BD - Added sort/search feature to pending list.

  • 2001.06.15 - BD - Added sort feature to regular list display.

  • 2001.06.15 - BD - Created export utility with sort & search features.

  • 2001.06.15 - BD - Added multiple form-field types.

  • 2001.06.19 - BD - Fixed custom category display bug.

  • 2001.06.19 - BD - Replaced buggy get_magic_quotes_runtime. (It does not work for PHP4.0.4-5) Function was replaced with PHP4 specific code for ".PHP" and ".PHP4" versions. If you want to use ".PHP" version on a PHP3 platform, comment out the PHP4 specific codes located at line 58 of "ciao.php" and line 40 of "ciaoadm.php" Then uncomment the PHP3 code.

  • 2001.06.22 - BD - Added feature to import so comma is no longer required after import list of just email addresses.

  • 2001.06.24 - BD - Added Error-To email header

  • 2001.06.28 - BD - Fixed "custom category" search and sort bug.

  • 2001.07.04 - BD - Fixed import bug and some more "custom category" bugs.

  • 2001.07.05 - BD - Added category "ALL" that is not seen by user so that custom categories works with all subscribers now.

  • 2001.07.09 - Alexey Semenovykh - Fixed a line error in "ciao_m03.php" that would adversely affect custom categories based on email address in certain circumstances.


    Ciao EmailList Manager Translation Contributors:
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    Ciao EmailList Manager Bug Notifications:
    (date - name - bug description - optional means of contact)


  • 2001.01.05 - Nigel Bouckley - VerifyFields bug affecting subscriber updating in alpha 0.17

  • 2001.01.21 - Bret Chrismer - Reported that popen command had not totally been ported from perl in SENDMAIL and DIG validation routines. - streetrodder.net

  • 2001.01.29 - Tom Sokolis, Geoff Carter, Taras Tchougai - Helped isolate the "magic_quotes" incompatibility

  • 2001.03.14 - Juliano Zabeo Pessini - Isolated and provided bug fix for line 153 of ciao_s03.php

  • 2001.05.06 - Jimmy Vo and Gerbrand van Dieijen - Notified of incompatibility with Outlook

  • 2001.05.10 - Jorge Catena - Notified of a situation where the signup form would not display - http://www.sursur.com/

  • 2001.05.18 - Dave Ashmore - Notified of three bugs. 1)The category editing admin tool did not work after DB upgrade. 2)The subscriber password field was not always passed into editing form correctly. 3)The custom lists stats was not working. - http://www.djash.com/

  • 2001.06.12 - Jason Chow - Notified of bug where admin login did not work on some servers. (BD - On investigation, some servers "crypt" passwords larger than database field.) - http://www.jasonchow.com/

  • 2001.06.12 - John G. Pedersen - Discovered an email address duplication error. - http://www.mobilsiden.dk/

  • 2001.06.19 - John G. Pedersen - Discovered a custom category error causing improper display. - http://www.mobilsiden.dk/

  • 2001.06.19 - Werner Fischer - Notified of a get_magic_quotes_runtime bug in PHP4.0.4-5 that adversely affected the software. - http://www.wefi.net/

  • 2001.06.28 - Alexey Semenovykh - Found some errors with "custom categories" relating to sorting and searching.

  • 2001.07.04 - Tony MacDonnell - Found an import error and some "custom category" errors. - http://macdonnell.co.uk/


    Ciao EmailList Manager Download Sites:
    (download site domain)
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    Enhancements and notifications are welcome.
    Contact Ben at: http://www.technobreeze.com/

  • Ciao EmailList Manager - (LICENSE)

    Ciao EmailList Manager - a customizable mass e-mail program that is administrator/subscriber friendly.
    Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Benjamin Drushell

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful. There is NO WARRANTY. NO implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY. NO implied warranty of FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The entire risk is with you. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

    A copy of the GNU General Public License is included with this program.

    For questions regarding the Ciao EmailList Manager license, contact Ben Drushell: http://www.technobreeze.com/

    Last update to ciaocredits.html was on July 09, 2001
    Ciao EmailList Manager (C) 2000,2001 Ben Drushell - http://www.technobreeze.com/
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